Troubled Water

Famous quotes containing the words troubled water, troubled and/or water:

    The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Who said, ‘All Time’s delight
    Hath she for narrow bed;
    Life’s troubled bubble broken’?—
    That’s what I said.
    Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

    Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before ‘tis a peascod, or a codling when ‘tis almost an apple. ‘Tis with him in standing water between boy and man.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)